Business productivity room

Abstract

A hotel room with furniture arranged for optimal television viewing from a bed and another location, such as a sofa or second bed. Furniture pieces are connected or closely aligned together and are arranged so that they provide premium viewing for a television, regardless of a location of a person within the hotel room. To this end, embodiments utilize furniture arrangements where the bed and/or sofa are turned at an angle to the walls of the room, and the room is laid out efficiently to account for this different design affect.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A hotel room, comprising:
 four walls defining a common area of the hotel room; 
 a bathroom including a door to the common area, the bathroom at least partially defined by one of the four walls; 
 an angled wall extending at an acute angle from the one of the four walls, the angled wall not extending to a ceiling of the hotel room; 
 a dead space formed in part by the angled wall, the dead space disposed between the bathroom and the angled wall and inaccessible from the common area, the dead space not extending to the ceiling of the hotel room; and 
 a usable space disposed directly between the dead space and the ceiling, and accessible from the common area. 
 
     
     
       2. The hotel room of  claim 1 , further comprising a sofa and bed, a head of the bed disposed along the angled wall and the sofa disposed lengthwise at least partly along the one of the four walls. 
     
     
       3. The hotel room of  claim 2 , wherein the four walls define a rectangle, and the bed is arranged at an acute angle to one of the four walls. 
     
     
       4. The hotel room of  claim 2 , wherein an end of the sofa distal to the bed is offset at an obtuse angle with the remainder of the sofa. 
     
     
       5. The hotel room of  claim 2 , wherein the bed is connected to the sofa by an end table. 
     
     
       6. The hotel room of  claim 2 , wherein:
 the bed, the sofa, and a desk are arranged so that a seating surface of the sofa, a middle head location on the bed, and a work surface of the desk form points of a triangle, with no two adjacent sides of the triangle forming an angle greater than 90 degrees; and 
 a foot of the bed and a seating surface of the sofa are directed generally towards a center of the triangle. 
 
     
     
       7. The hotel room of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a television in the common area of the room; 
 a bed in the common area of the room and arranged with a head of the bed disposed along the angled wall and a foot of the bed disposed substantially towards the television; and 
 a sofa at an acute angle relative to the bed and arranged to face substantially towards the television. 
 
     
     
       8. The hotel room of  claim 1 , wherein the bathroom and the dead space are separated by an interior wall. 
     
     
       9. The hotel room of  claim 1 , further comprising at least one of a bookshelf and a lighting element disposed in the usable space. 
     
     
       10. The hotel room of  claim 1 , wherein the acute angle is approximately 45 degrees. 
     
     
       11. A method of retrofitting a hotel room, the method comprising:
 in a hotel room comprising four structural walls, a bathroom, and a common area,
 adding an angled wall extending at an acute angle from a first structural wall of the four structural walls, the angled wall not extending to a ceiling of the hotel room, wherein adding the angled wall forms a dead space between the angled wall and an existing wall of the bathroom, the dead space not extending to the ceiling of the hotel room; 
 forming a usable space disposed directly between the dead space and the ceiling, and accessible from the common area; and 
 assembling an integrated piece of furniture including a sofa and a bed, the integrated piece of furniture extending at least partly along the first structural wall, with a head of the bed aligned against the angled wall. 
 
 
     
     
       12. The method of  claim 11 , further comprising:
 adding a desk along a second structural wall opposite the first structural wall; and 
 arranging the bed, the sofa, and the desk so that a seating surface of the sofa, a middle head location on the bed, and a work surface of the desk form points of a triangle, with no two adjacent sides of the triangle forming an angle greater than 90 degrees. 
 
     
     
       13. The method of  claim 11 ,
 wherein the usable space is configured to receive at least one of a light source and a bookshelf. 
 
     
     
       14. The method of  claim 11 , further comprising:
 adding a television along a second structural wall opposite the first structural wall; and 
 arranging the bed, the sofa, and the television so that a seating surface of the sofa, a middle head location on the bed, and a screen of the television form points of a triangle, with no two adjacent sides of the triangle forming an angle greater than approximately 90 degrees. 
 
     
     
       15. A hotel room, comprising:
 four walls defining a common area of the hotel room; 
 a bathroom including a door to the common area, the bathroom at least partially defined by one of the four walls; 
 an angled wall extending at an acute angle from the one of the four walls, the angled wall not extending to a ceiling of the room; and 
 a vertical space formed in part by the angled wall, the one of the four walls, and a bathroom wall, the vertical space disposed between the bathroom and the angled wall and including a first volume that is inaccessible from the common area and does not extend to the ceiling of the room, and a second volume disposed directly between the first volume and the ceiling, and is accessible from the common area, 
 wherein the second volume is configured to receive at least one of a light source and a bookshelf. 
 
     
     
       16. The hotel room of  claim 15 , further comprising a sofa and bed, a head of the bed disposed along the angled wall and the sofa disposed lengthwise at least partly along the one of the four walls. 
     
     
       17. The hotel room of  claim 16 , wherein the four walls define a rectangle, and the bed is arranged at an acute angle to one of the four walls. 
     
     
       18. The hotel room of  claim 15 , further comprising:
 a television in the common area of the room; 
 a bed in the common area of the room and arranged with a head of the bed disposed along the angled wall and a foot of the bed disposed substantially towards the television; and 
 a sofa at an acute angle relative to the bed and arranged to face substantially towards the television.